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DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instancemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHughes TechnologiesRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20122013202319941993
Current release1.0, March 20234.4, October 20213.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuanoyes
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the servernoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noPassword-based authenticationnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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